interpretatio

From interpretārī, interpretor (“to explain, interpret”) + -tiō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.ter.preˈtaː.ti.oː/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrprɛˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.ter.preˈtat.t͡si.o/, [in̪t̪erpreˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

interpretātiō f (genitive interpretātiōnis); third declension

1. explanation, exposition, interpretation
2. a translation, version
3. signification, meaning
4. an explanation of one expression by another

Third-declension noun.

• interpretātiō germānica
• interpretātiō graeca
• interpretātiō rōmāna
• interpretātiuncula

• “interpretatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interpretatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interpretatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• interpretatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the process of translation: interpretatio, translatio (not versio or conversio)
    
  • etymology (not etymologia): nominum interpretatio
    
• interpretatio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016